New Delhi, July 8, 2019: At least 29 people were killed and 17 wounded when a bus skidded off the six-lane Yamuna Expressway near Delhi and fell into a large drain. The 165-km-long expressway connects Noida with Agra in Uttar Pradesh. The state government-run bus, carrying 46 people, was goingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 8, 2019: More than 1,000 delegates from 319 parishes of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly have supported priests who oppose their archbishop, Cardinal George Alencherry, who is allegedly involved in a land scam. Members from official organizations of the Church bodies such as pastoral councilContinue Reading
Kochi, July 7 2019: A 40-year-old Christian priest was arrested on July 7 for allegedly sexually assaulting inmates of a boys’ home , police said. The arrest of Father George, alias Jerry Thareparambil, for alleged sexual abuse of young children at a boys’ home in Kochi in Kerala’s Ernakulam districtContinue Reading
By Sameer Yasir and Kai Schultz Rawalpora, June 7, 2019: — Mohammad Ishaq Lone got a call from the Indian Army one February night, ordering him to meet soldiers at an outpost near his house in Kashmir. It was only after he was hauled off to a brightly lit room,Continue Reading
KOCHI, July 6: The first permanent Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church after the reinstatement of Cardinal Mar George Alencherry as the administrative Archbishop of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese was in Kochi on July 5. The Synod session, convened at the headquarters of the Church, St Thomas Mount, Kakkanad, which began atContinue Reading
By : Matters India Reporter Thalipparamba, July 6, 2019: A Catholic nun has died and another nun was injured on July 5 in a road accident in Kerala. Sister Regina Maria, a member of the St Joseph’s province of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, was on her way to church when sheContinue Reading
Kochi, July 4: The permanent synod of the Syro-Malabar Church will meet here on Friday, July 5 to discuss the repercussions of the open revolt by around 250 priests against the reinstatement of Cardinal George Alencherry as the head of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese. Jacob Manathodath, who was appointed as ApostolicContinue Reading
Kozhikode, July 4, 2019: Some lay people have approached the Kerala High Court against “illegal quarrying” on the land of two parishes under Thamarassery diocese. The Catholic Laymen’s Association also wants the court to act against the state government for its failure to check the diocese’s bishop and vicars ofContinue Reading
Kochi, July 4, 2019: The Indian Supreme Court on July 2 pulled up the Kerala Chief Secretary over the state government’s failure to implement its July 3, 2017, order on a dispute between Orthodox and Jacobite factions of Malankara Christian Church in the state over the ownership of churches andContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, July 3, 2019: A court in India has told police not to take any further action against Cardinal Oswald Gracias of the Archdiocese of Bombay and two of his auxiliary bishops in a case where they are accused of not informing the authorities of an abuse accusationContinue Reading